"He wore a blue coat with Grand Army buttons, and one of the buttons was missing from the right sleeve when I saw him in the corridor as I passed out.

He probably caught his sleeve on something in the safe and ripped the button off.

He either did not notice the loss of the button or had no time to pick it up." "You're locating him in a compromising situation, all right," Frank said.

"But you said 'one of the men who visited the rooms that night.' Who were the others ?" "Wait a minute," said Nestor.

"Let me tell you what else I found there.